TubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “upstage”
Hear “upstage” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for upstage
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of upstage with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture 44 minutes
that one didn't upstage the neighborhood --
- Definition summary
- (theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
Example 1 of 7
How to pronounce upstage
Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture 44 minutes

that one didn't upstage the neighborhood --
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “upstage”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
- [Adverb]
- Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
- Away from the audience or camera.
- [Adjective]
- At the rear of a stage.
- (figurative, obsolete) Haughty, aloof.
- [Verb]
- (figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
- (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
- (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
- (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.
Practice Nearby Words
downstage, stage left, understage, postscenium, center stage, proscenium, audience left, back, above stairs, endstage, camera right, camera left, audience right, way back, interstage, upstack, front row, downstack, outside, substage, fundus, hindmargin, back row, afterdeck, antechoir, depths, posterior, outermost, midshoot, outground, outlying, depth, outpart, offshore, upper, counterapse, second distance, overside, fore edge, topside, outskirt, upperside, stern, upper side, center, front, rear, backside, centerground, upskirt, midstage, penumbra, outremer, main curtain, centreground, bottom, antinode, outer, back end, middle distance, fringe, west, midframe, sideline, afterbody, reverse, earshot, upright, outsettlement, blue, oversky, doorside, behind, overstratum, superstrate, underside, back forty, underpart, uptown, underportion, upper reaches, offglide, inversus, deep space, overstory, surrounding, outportion, underhang, subarena, rear end, underverse, exoatmosphere, outbounds, hitherside, antumbra, upstream, afterpart, supraposition, afterbrow, upland
Similar Sounds
upstage, upstaged, upstay, upstate, abstain, assuage, upstair, astay, upstaging, the stage, offstage, restage, off stage, est, upsetting, uppity, upto, upswing, apostate, ipswich, uptake, epstein, up to, asti, upsurge, uptain, usta, astate, upta, astasia, astu, upsi, upstir, asij, hostage, onstage, wastage, ice age, osage, apst, on stage, app store, asswage, astray, esteem, estate, attach, astute, appendage, ista, esta, esty, abating, astir, astaire, estee, assuaged, esto, astin, abetting, abstained, asay, esti, estoy, ipso, epsy, abutting, astar, abstainer, estey, asst, apostel, abstains, epsi, astec, chepstow, ipsa, adige, isti, estridge, etage, appt, apet, astone, apanage, epci, appeach, astel, astun, astat, ipta, abati, apostil, ipsi, apoda, assish, astoop